Hidcote Manor Garden

Hidcote Manor Garden

Hidcote Manor Garden is a landscape garden located on the outskirts of the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England and owned by the National Trust.

Created by American-born horticulturalist Major Lawrence Johnston, it is often described as one of England's great "Arts and Crafts" gardens with its collection of rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.

History

Johnston's mother, Gertrude Winthrop, purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate in 1907. The estate was located within a part of England with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement.

Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the estate into a garden. By 1910 Johnston had begun to lay out the key features of the garden and by the 1920s Johnston had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.

The garden was acquired by the National Trust in 1947.

Johnston's influences in creating his garden include such luminaries as Alfred Parsons, Gertrude Jekyll, and others. In 2007 a garden designed by Chris Beardshaw that drew its inspiration from Johnson's Hicote was constructed at the Chelsea Flower Show.

The property

The garden takes the form of a series of "rooms" of various characters created by the creative use of hedges and walls. These rooms are linked together, and some by imaginative vistas and furnished with topiaries. Some have ponds and fountains, and all are planted with flowers in bedding schemes. They surround the Tudor manor house, and there are numerous outhouses and a kitchen garden. The property is close to Kiftsgate Court Gardens, which is built on the very edge of the Cotswolds escarpment.

ee also

*Jardin Serre de la Madone, Johnston's garden in the Riviera
*Kiftsgate Court Gardens

External links

* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hidcotemanorgarden/ Hidcote Manor Garden information at the National Trust]
* [http://www.pagemost.com/hidcote-manor-garden Map of Hidcote Manor Garden and surrounding area] From pagemost.com Features all National Trust properties


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